Wednesday, 31 August 2016

In response to my previous post, Raghav Chadha, the spokesperson of AAP has tweeted: "Sir, Arvind Kejriwal doesn't have the powers to dismiss Najeeb Jung". This was retweeted by Arvind Kejriwal.

I cannot make head or tail out of what Raghav Chadha has tweeted, or what he meant. I had never said that Arvind Kejriwal should dismiss, or has power to dismiss Najeeb Jung.

In my previous post I had said that the minister responsible for the water logging in Delhi along with the senior officials concerned should be dismissed immediately by Arvind Kejriwal.

Obviously, this meant that Arvind Kejriwal should recommend to the Lt Governor to dismiss the minister and officers concerned. Surely Arvind Kejriwal as the Chief Minister can make this recommendation to the Lt. Governor, whether the Lt. Governor accepts it or not.

The AAP government of Delhi cannot keep evading its responsibility in providing civic amenities to the people of Delhi. The recent massive water logging in Delhi causing traffic jams and other problems has resulted in immense hardship to the people of Delhi. Even the US Secretary of State, John Kerry was stranded.

Why did the AAP government not get the drains of Delhi cleared so that the rain water may go out and not cause water logging? Did they not know that this is the rainy season, and rains comes every year, and unless there is a proper drainage system there is bound to be water logging?

The Delhi government has also to be held responsible for not controlling diseases like Dengue, Chikungunya, etc which have claimed several lives and is spreading in Delhi.

Arvind Kejriwal and his associates must stop this habit of blaming the Lt. Governor for everything. If he is of the view that the Chief Minister is nothing and the Lt. Governor is everything, then Kejriwal should, if he is honest, resign from his post along with his cabinet. Why is he then drawing the salary of Chief Minister and why are his Ministers and MLAs drawing their salaries if they are nothing ? Why are they occupying official houses and using cars if they are nothing ?.

Although, I had praised some good things the AAP government had earlier done in Delhi like Mohalla Clinics, lowering electricity and water prices etc., but now my opinion like that of many others, has changed and I think Kejriwal is just avoiding taking any responsibility for his failures by resorting to the blame game of blaming the Lt. Governor for everything.

Mr. Kejriwal, it is now time to tell you frankly. The people of Delhi want performance from you, as you had promised during the Delhi Assembly elections, and not non-performance by giving excuses. Either perform or resign and get out.

Though I have not lived in Kashmir ( my wife did, and speaks fluent Kashmiri ) since my ancestors migrated from Kashmir about 200 years ago, I am proud to call myself a Kashmiri, and I regard Kashmiri Muslims as my blood brothers and sisters. Our DNA is the same. Whenever Kashmiri Muslims meet me, they feel they are meeting one of their own. When Kashmiri law students used to come from Kashmir to Delhi they would often come to my Courtroom in the Supreme Court as they felt one of their own is a Supreme Court Judge, and I used to invite them to my residence and interact with them. So I have no enmity with Kashmiris, as that would be enmity with myself.

What I have to say with regret, however, is that my Kashmir, which was Sufi Kashmir, has been radicalised and converted into Wahabi Kashmir, and I hate Wahabis, just as I hate all intolerant religious fundamentalists, including Hindu fundamentalists like Adityanath, Pravin Togadia, Sadhvi Prachi, etc.

These Kashmiri Rishis taught tolerance, brotherhood and compassion, like all Sufis.

In my Kashmir Muslims and Pandits used to live in harmony like brothers and sisters, as my wife and her relatives and others tell me.

But all that has changed. After the Pandits were killed, terrorised, and hounded out of the valley from 1989 onwards ( and many Kashmiris who were not even born at that time have been brainwashed into saying that Jagmohan did it, which is false ), my Kashmir has gone with the wind.

The Kashmir of today is no longer Sufi Kashmir but has become Wahabi Kashmir. The Chairman of the Hurriyat Conference, that feudal buffoon, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, is a hardcore Islamic fundamentalist, and so are most of his associates.

Many Kashmiri Muslims now express their love for the Pandits, and shed crocodile tears about their departure from the valley, but where were Geelani and his ilk in 1989 ? Did they ever raise their voices against the atrocities on Pandits then ? No, a lock was placed on their lips at that time, when loudspeakers blared from mosques telling Pandt males to convert or get out of the valley, but leave their women behind, when notices were pasted on the houses of Pandits to the same effect, and when Pandits were selectively massacred in many places, often being identified to the killers by their Muslim neighbours. Now of course they are in a denial mode.

The present azadi agitation in Kashmir is being led by such Islamic fanatics and bigots, while the rest of the Kashmiri population is like mindless pawns being used by their chess masters, and the international forces behind them.

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

I had said several times that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must reunite, as the Partition of 1947 was a historical swindle and a colossal fraud by the British on the basis of the bogus two nation theory and the wicked divide and rule policy.

Many people called my idea of reunification only a dream, just as many people called Mazzini's vision of a united Italy a dream, or Bismarck's vision of a united Germany a dream. And I too often wondered, while never doubting the correctness of my belief in reunification, how and when it could be practically achieved ?

Now Kashmiris by demanding Azadi, and the Pakistani Govt. by supporting that demand, have solved my problem.

India must first break up and dismember that fake, artificial entity ( I refuse to call it a country ) called Pakistan, by sending arms and other supplies on a large scale to Sind, Balochistan and NWFP, whose people are sick and fed up of Punjabi domination, and rightly and legitimately want azadi.

Thereafter India should persuade these independent countries i.e. Sind, Balochistan and NWFP to voluntarily join India, in initially a confederation, and later, if they so wish, a union, under a secular govt. which while guaranteeing freedom of religion to all does not tolerate religious extremism and bigotry. This govt. of reunited India must then rapidly industrialize the country and ensure a decent life with employment, healthcare, nutritious food, good education, housing, etc to all its citizens.

So thank you Kashmiris and Pakistanis. You have solved my problem, and have shown the practical path to reunification

Sunday, 28 August 2016

In a speech delivered in the Prussian Landtag ( Parliament ) in 1862, the great future Chancellor of Germany, Bismarck, said " the great issues of the day will not be decided by votes and speeches but by blood and iron ( blut und essen ) ". He said this when the Landtag members were opposing his request to increase the grants to the military which he needed for unification of Germany.

A similar thing can be said about current developments in India, which beg...inning from Kashmir are likely to spread to,other parts of the country too.

For most of the period after Independence in 1947 politics in India was largely governed by votes and speeches ( though there were some sporadic violent incidents too ). The 'giants' in our national scene were people who could give attractive and seductive speeches about how they would serve the people if elected, but behind the scene indulged in their field of expertise of manipulating caste and communal vote banks, and looting the nation. But now after almost 70 years something fundamental has changed in India, these ' giants' have been exposed as paper tigers, and it has started from Kashmir. The era of ' blood and iron ' has arrived in India, and is going to rapidly replace the era of ' votes and speeches '.

Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, ex Chief Minister Omar Abdulla, PDP member Mehboob Beg, separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, J&K Congress Chief G.M. Mir, National Conference spokesman Nasir Aslam Wani, and even the Prime Minister have all been making fatuous appeals for peace, which have all fallen on deaf ears in Kashmir.. Mehbooba Mufti, like a rat cornered by prowling ravenous tomcats, made a pitiful appeal ' for one last chance ', but who listens to her ?.

All these people do not understand the forces at work in Kashmir, and therefore, like King Canute, are trying to push back the oceanic waves. But like an actor who refuses to leave the stage although his role is over, they will soon be pushed out by forces beyond their control.

I am reminded of Napoleon, who was very powerful at one time ( he used to confer crowns on his favourites like a Roman Emperor distributing coins to the populace ), but on reaching Moscow in September 1812 realized that most of his power had gone ( see Tolstoy's ' War and Peace ' ), and he ultimately ended up in St. Helena.

As Shakespeare said in ' King Lear ' : " As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for sport ".

And as Omar Khayyam said in his Rubaiyats :

" They say the lions and the lizards keep the Court where Jamshed gloried and drank deep

And Behram that mighty hunter, the wild ass stamps over his head, but cannot break his sleep "

Now that the era of blood and iron is dawning in India, beginning from Kashmir, we will witness a rapid, qualitative, change in our politics. All our great netas will be thrown into the dustbin

It is reported today in the media that the Pakistan Prime Minister has appointed 22 members of the Pakistan Parliament to go around the world as special envoys to highlight the Kashmir issue, and he himself will address the U.N. General Assembly about it in September. Thus, it is evident that the Pakistan Govt. is hell bent on escalating the issue

What should our response be ?

I submit that the Indian Govt. should now derecognize that fake, artificial entity ( I refuse to call it a country ) called Pakistan.

As I have pointed out in my article ' The Truth about Pakistan ' ( which was published in the Pakistani newspaper ' The Nation ', and can be seen online and on my blog ), Pakistan was created as a fake, artificial country by the British in pursuance of their wicked divide and rule policy on the basis of the bogus two nation theory, that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations. http://nation.com.pk/c…/02-Mar-2013/the-truth-about-pakistan

Pakistan is not a country at all. What is Pakistan ? It is Punjab, Sind, Balochistan and NWFP. These were all part of India since Mughal times. When I meet Pakistanis I feel no different from them. We look like each other, speak the same language Hindustani ( called Hindi in India and Urdu in Pakistan ), share the same culture, etc. We were befooled by the Britishers into thinking we are enemies of each other, but how much longer must we remain befooled ?.How much longer must blood flow between Hindus and Muslims ?

Victor Hugo said " There is one thing more powerful than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come ".

The idea of reunified India is an idea whose time has come. Pakistan is a fake, artificial entity, and the Partition of 1947 on the basis of the bogus two nation theory was a colossal fraud and a historical swindle, creating enormous problems for the sub continent, under which we are still reeling. We have been fighting each other since 1947, and wasting enormous resources on these fights and tensions, and purchasing billions of dollars of foreign arms, instead of utilizing our resources in uplifting our people from poverty.

I have repeatedly said that 99% Pakistanis are good people, just as 99% Indians are good people. 99% Hindus are good people, and 99% Muslims are good people. We should make a distinction between the Pakistani Govt. and the Pakistani people. It is the Pakistani Govt. not the Pakistani people who are hell bent on creating trouble The Pakistani people are really Indians, they are our brothers and sisters, and like us want to live peaceful lives.

We are really one people, but the British befooled us by their wicked divide and rule policy and bogus two nation theory, which was systematically propagated since 1857 through their agents, into believing that Hindus and Muslims are enemies. But how much longer must we remain befooled ? How much longer must blood flow in our sub continent ? The time has come to undo the historical fraud and swindle of Partition, and reunite under a secular modern minded government, which rapidly industrializes the country and raises the standard of living of our people. This govt. while guaranteeing freedom of religion to all, must crush religious extremism and bigotry with an iron hand.

Some people say that the idea of reunification is a pipe dream, as Partition took place in 1947, and since then much water has flown. But Germany was reunited in 1990 after its partition in 1945. So time is immaterial when we are really one nation. When Mazzini spoke of Italian unification most people said it was a pipe dream, but this dream became a reality under Cavour and Garibaldi. Bismarck united Germany in 1871.
Others say that there is too much hatred between the people of the two countries to reunite. But this hatred is artificial, and created by false propaganda. Merely because we are of different religions does not mean we are enemies. We share the same culture, and have the same massive problems of poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, lack of healthcare. We should reunite to jointly fight to give our people decent lives, instead of fighting each other.

Since the Pakistan Govt. has decided to up the ante over the issue of Kashmir, let us also pay them back in their own coin by denying the very existence of Pakistan ( and rightly so ) as a genuine country.

The first step in this direction must be to derecognize Pakistan recall our envoys, and tell theirs to get the hell out of India.

Saturday, 27 August 2016

In the website thewire.in an interview with former RAW chief A.S. Dulat has been published about how to solve the Kashmir imbroglio. Mr. Dulat says that the only answer to the Kashmir problem is dialogue, not aggression.

I submit that Mr. Dulat's statements therein are meaningless clichés and platitudes, and are totally superficial, without understanding the realities behind the Kashmir scene, as explained in my blog and facebook post, which is as under :

Prepare for the long haul in Kashmir

Those who think that some political dialogue can resolve the Kasmir problem are living in a fool's paradise. They do not know the realities. So let me explain.

The Kashmiri militants are using sophisticated weapons and other supplies. Where are these sophisticated weapons and supplies coming from ? Such sophisticated weapons and supplies do not fall from the sky. Obviously some outside power is supplying them and training the militants in use of these weapons.

Moreover, these militants demanding azadi are only brainwashed pawns like Burhan Wani and Ajmal Qasab. Pawns are only pieces which the chess player uses in the game. The power which is behind these pawns, the real chess player who is using them is China ( through Pakistan ), as I have explained in my blog

Please go through the above blog carefully in order to understand the real game of China..

I submit that it will take 10-15 years or more to resolve the Kashmir problem, and till then the turmoil, imbroglio and violence will continue, however sad and unfortunate that may be.

As for the demand for azadi, I have already explained in my article published in Huffington Post that

such azadi will be against the interest of Kashmiris, as it will result in Islamic fundametalism being imposed in Kashmir, which will throw back Kashmir into the dark Middle Ages. The demand is hence totally reactionary. Morever, azadi, even if achieved, will not last long. Kashmir will soon thereafter be swallowed up by Pakistan, and come under the Pakistani military jackboot.

The correct demand for Kashmiris is reunification of India and Pakistan ( and Bangladesh ) under a strong, modern minded secular state which while guaranteeing freedom of religion to all does not tolerate religious extremism of bigotry, whether Hindu or Muslim, and crushes it with an iron hand.

This reunited state must then rapidly industrialize the country and ensure a high standard of living and decent life to all.

Such reunification will not be easy, it will take 15-20 years, but till then the Kashmir pot will keep boiling

Mr. Dulat makes the following points in his interview :

1. The Indian Govt. should engage in talks. But talks with whom ? Mr. Dulat says we should begin with Hurriyat. But the Hurriyat is a separatist organization which wants Kashmir separated from India, as its leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has repeatedly said. What is the point talking with them ? As for talks with Pakistan, they will keep harping on azadi for Kashmir. Moreover, Pakistan is a fake, artificial entity ( I refuse to call it a country ) created by the British on the basis of the bogus two nation theory to ensure enmity between Hindus and Muslims even after their departure. So what is the point talking with them ?

Mr. Dulat totally misses the point I have raised in my blog. The Kashmiri militants are using sophisticated weapons and other supplies. Where are these sophisticated weapons and supplies coming from ? Such sophisticated weapons and supplies do not fall from the sky. Obviously some outside power is supplying them and training the militants in use of these weapons.

Moreover, these militants demanding azadi are only brainwashed pawns like Burhan Wani and Ajmal Qasab. Pawns are only pieces which the chess player uses in the game. The power which is behind these pawns, the real unseen chess player who is using them is China ( through Pakistan ), as I have explained in my blog

2. Mr. Dulat says we should follow 'Vajpayee's way', and that the BJP-PDP alliance has angered the Kashmiris.

Again, a meaningless platitude. He says that Vajpayee is revered in the valley. I did not hear a single Kashmiri of today saying we want to follow 'Vajpayee's way' ( whatever the expression may mean ). And to blame the BJP-PDP alliance for the mess in Kashmir is overlooking the underlying realities. There is a strong foreign power, China, acting through its new surrogate, Pakistan, which is obviously covertly behind the Kashmir agitation for azadi.

It is true that a large section of Kashmiris have joined the agitation, but I submit they are being used by China and Pakistan, like mindless pawns used by the unseen chess player.

As for the motive of China, it is given in my blog ' The Kashmiri Separatist Militancy '

If Kashmir becomes azad, do the Kashmiris think they will really be free ? No, the power which has supplied sophisticated weapons, etc to the Kashmiri militants will then demand its pound of flesh, and make Kashmir its neo-colony, and exploit it for its own benefit, not the benefit of Kashmiris.

3. Mr. Dulat talks of 'insaniyat, jamuriyat and Kashmiriyat'. All these are meaningless moral platitudes, conveying nothing, and overlooking the underlying realities, as explained above.

4. Mr. Dulat talks favourably of the 'Musharraf four point formula' which, according to him, was acceptable to all the Kashmiris, including the separatists. It was peace on the line of control, with going and coming and open borders and more interaction between the two Kashmirs, trade, armies pulled back.

So according to Mr. Dulat, we should open the border with POK, and let more militants walk in. The army should be pulled back so that the militants may have a field day, bringing the entire valley under its grip, imposing Islamic fundamentalism and sharia law, which will drag Kashmir back into the dark middle ages. Obviously neither Mr. Dulat nor the Kashmiri agitators for 'azadi' understand this.

Azadi can only be a means to an end, and not an end itself. The end must be raising the standard of living of the people. I have repeatedly said that if it can be demonstrated that azadi will raise the standard of living of the people of Kashmir, i.e. provide large scale employment to the unemployed Kashmiri youth, provide healthcare to Kashmiris, abolish poverty, etc. I will support it. But neither Geelani nor Burhan Wani nor any of their cohorts and associates ever spoke or even thought of that.

The azadi champions are Islamic fundamentalists who will drag Kashmir back into the middle ages.

I submit that Mr. Dulat's analysis is totally superficial, and entirely overlooks the realities of the situation in Kashmir

Friday, 26 August 2016

Those who think that some political dialogue can resolve the Kasmir problem are living in a fool's paradise. They do not know the realities. So let me explain.
The Kashmiri militants are using sophisticated weapons and other supplies. Where are these sophisticated weapons and supplies coming from ? Such sophisticated weapons and supplies do not fall from the sky. Obviously some outside power is supplying them and training the militants in use of these weapons.
Moreover, these militants demanding azadi are only brainwashed pawns like Burhan Wani and Ajmal Qasab. Pawns are only pieces which the chess player uses in the game. The power which is behind these pawns, the real chess player who is using them is China ( through Pakistan ), as I have explained in my bloghttp://justicekatju.blogspot.in/2016/07/the-kashmiri-separatist-militancy.html
Please go through the above blog carefully in order to understand the real game of China..
I submit that it will take 10-15 years or more to resolve the Kashmir problem, and till then the turmoil, imbroglio and violence will continue, however sad and unfortunate that may be.
As for the demand for azadi, I have already explained in my article published in Huffington Post that such azadi will be against the interest of Kashmiris, as it will result in Islamic fundametalism being imposed in Kashmir, which will throw back Kashmir into the dark Middle Ages. The demand is hence totally reactionary. Morever, azadi, even if achieved, will not last long. Kashmir will soon thereafter be swallowed up by Pakistan, and come under the Pakistani military jackboot.http://www.huffingtonpost.in/markandey-katju/demanding-azadi-for-kashmir-is-not-sedition-but-it-is-certainly/?utm_hp_ref=in-homepage
The correct demand for Kashmiris is reunification of India and Pakistan ( and Bangladesh ) under a strong, modern minded secular state which while guaranteeing freedom of religion to all does not tolerate religious extremism of bigotry, whether Hindu or Muslim, and crushes it with an iron hand. This reunited state must then rapidly industrialize the country and ensure a high standard of living and decent life to all.http://justicekatju.blogspot.in/2016/01/india-and-pakistan-just-as-prime.html
Such reunification will not be easy, it will take 15-20 years, but till then the Kashmir pot will keep boiling

Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Some people agree on principle with my idea of reunified secular India , which includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, but ask how it is to be achieved in practice ? So I will reply As Victor Hugo said " There is one thing more powerful than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come ".

The idea of reunified India is an idea whose time has come. Pakistan is a fake, artificial entity ( see my article ' The Truth about Pakistan ' online ), and Partition on the basis of the bogus two nation theory has created enormous problems. We have been fighting each other since 1947, and wasting enormous resources on these fights and tensions, instead of utilizing our resources in uplifting our people from poverty.

I have repeatedly said that 99% Pakistanis are good people, just as 99% Indians are good people. 99% Hindus are good people, and 99% Muslims are good people.

We are really one people, but the British befooled us by their wicked divide and rule policy and bogus two nation theory, which was systematically propagated since 1857 through their agents, into believing that Hindus and Muslims are enemies. But how much longer must we remain befooled ? How much longer must blood flow in our sub continent ? The time has come to undo the historical fraud and swindle of Partition, and reunite under a secular modern minded government, which rapidly industrializes the country and raises the standard of living of our people. This govt. while guaranteeing freedom of religion to all, must crush religious extremism and bigotry with an iron hand.

So what must be done to reunify ? This will not be easy, because those who divided us will not allow us to easily reunify. An arduous long drawn struggle will be needed for this.

The first step in that direction will be to propagate and spread the idea that we must reunify if we are to progress. Here is where all patriotic intellectuals, like many of you, are needed. You have to be very patient, and coolly explain to people in India and Pakistan ( and Bangladesh ) why we must reunify. You may face tremendous hostility in the beginning ( as I have faced ).

You will be told that the idea of reunification is a pipe dream, as Partition took place in 1947, and since then much water has flown. You should reply that Germany was reunited in 1990 after its Partition in 1945. So time is immaterial when we are really one nation.

Others will say that there is too much hatred between the people of the two countries to reunite. You should reply that this hatred is artificial, and created by false propaganda. Merely because we are of different religions does not mean we are enemies. We share the same culture, and have the same massive problems of poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, lack of healthcare. We should reunite to jointly fight to give our people decent lives, instead of fighting each other.

Once this idea of reunification grips the masses in both countries some way of peacefully reuniting will emerge, though how exactly that will happen cannot be predicted
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Omar Abdullah said recently that to solve the Kashmir problem a political dialogue is necessary.

But dialogue with whom ? Pakistan and the separatists want azadi for Kashmir, so what is the point of having a dialogue with them The Kashmir imbroglio continues, stoked up by Pakistan.

I submit that the Kashmir problem can never be solved until India and Pakistan ( and Bangladesh ) reunite under a secular government.

There are some people who talk of improving relations between India and Pakistan. I submit that these people are living in a fools' paradise.

There can never be good relations between India and Pakistan, because Pakistan was created to ensure that there are hostllities and tension between the two, for two reasons (1) India does not emerge as a modern industrial giant, and thus become a rival to Western industries (2) India and Pakistan remain big importers of foreign arms, thus ensuring sales of arms industries of Western countries, and thus spending huge amounts on purchase of these weapons, money which could be spent on the welfare of our own people. http://www.catchnews.com/…/arms-race-india-s-expenditure-on…

I have said in my article ' The Truth about Pakistan ' ( which was published in the Pakistani newspaper ' The Nation , and is available online ) that Pakistan is a fake, artificial country created on the basis of the bogus two nation theoryhttp://nation.com.pk/c…/02-Mar-2013/the-truth-about-Pakistan

What is Pakistan ? It is Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan, and NWFP, which were all part of India since Mughal times. When I meet Pakistanis I feel no different from them. We speak the same language, Hindustani ( called Hindi by us and Urdu by them), we look like each other, share a common culture, e.g. love for Urdu poetry and classical Indian music, the same dress and food ( biryani, etc ). In foreign countries Indians and Pakistanis mix and socialize as if Partition has never taken place.

Pakistan was created on the basis of the bogus two nation theory, that Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations. If religion is the basis of a nation, then hardly any nation in the world could survive. Britain will have to be partitioned into about 10 'nations', Anglican, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic,Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, etc. So also U.S.A. Russia, France, Germany, etc. Almost all countries have people of different religions.

So what will talks between India and Pakistan achieve ? If there really are good relations between India and Pakistan, then the very purpose of creating Pakistan will cease to exist.

As for talks with separatist leaders, they will only keep chanting ' azadi '. So what is the solution ?

The solution is reunification of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh under a strong, secular government which does not tolerate religious extremism of any kind and crushes it with an iron hand This reunification, though bound to happen, will probably take a long time, because those who have divided us will not let us easily reunite, and we have to wage a long, arduous struggle to attain this objective. This reunification will automatically solve the Kashmir problem too, but till then the problem will continue.

Some people say that India and Pakistan were divided a long time back and much water has flown since then, and now it is not possible to reunite. They forget that Germany was reunited in 1990 after 45 years of separation, and China has not yet recognized Taiwan.

Many people say that this idea of reuniting is only a dream. But when Mazzini spoke of unification of Italy he was called a dreamer, and yet his dream came true under Cavour and Garibaldi.
Still others say that we cannot reunite because there is great deal of hatred between the people of the two countries.In fact this hatred was artificially created by the British divide and rule policy ( see my article ' The Truth about Pakistan ' ), and with re-education can be eliminated. People of both countries want decent lives, and want to get rid of poverty.

The worst thing in life is poverty, and the test of every system is one and only one : does it raise the standard of living of the people ?

. India must reunite because the only way to abolish poverty, unemployment and our other socio-economic ills is rapid industrialization, for only with a huge industry will we able to generate the wealth required for the welfare of our people. But for such a huge industry we must have a huge market, because the goods produced have to be sold. Therefore far from dividing India we must reunite if we are to escape from poverty and other social ills. The demand for azadi for Kashmir or any other part of India totally overlooks this, and is reactionary.

We already have thousands of competent engineers, managers, technicians, scientists, etc in our country. Once we reunite we will also have tremendous natural resources and a huge market for a powerful, widespread industry, and this huge industry will generate millions of jobs for our unemployed youth. Only then we will be able to escape from poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, lack of healthcare and our other social ills.
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Sunday, 21 August 2016

The demand for azadi
Some JNU students and Amnesty International were charged for sedition under section 124A IPC. In this connection I wish to make two points :
1. Article 19(1)(a) of the Indian Constitution guarantees freedom of speech to all citizens, though this is subject to reasonable restrictions mentioned in Article 19(2).
Although I disapprove of it, in my opinion shouting slogans for azadi per se is no crime. So many people in India often shout such slogans, e.g. Khalistanis, Kashmiris, Nagas, Mizos, etc. In Scotland many people demand separation from England, and many people in French speaking Quebec demand freedom from the rest of Canada.
In a democracy people should be allowed to let out steam, and the govt. should ignore many things, and not overreact.
. Thus, in Noto vs. U.S. 367 US 290(297-298) Mr. Justice Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court observed :
".........The mere teaching of Communist theory, including the teaching of the moral propriety or even moral necessity for a resort to force and violence, is not the same as preparing a group for violent action and steeling it to such action. There must be some substantial direct or circumstantial evidence of a call to violence now or in the future which is both sufficiently strong and sufficiently pervasive to lend colour to the otherwise ambiguous theoretical material regarding Communist Party teaching."
In Terminiello vs. Chicago, 337 US 1 (1949) Mr. Justice Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court speaking for the majority observed :
"..A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea. That is why freedom of speech, though not absolute,...is nevertheless protected against censorship or punishment, unless shown likely to produce a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance or unrest....There is no room under our Constitution for a more restrictive view. For the alternative would lead to standardization of ideas either by legislatures, courts, or dominant political or community groups."
In Abrams vs. U.S., 250 US 616 (1919) the defendants had been convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917, which made it a criminal offense to urge curtailment of production of the materials necessary to the war against Germany with intent to hinder the progress of the war. .The defendants were convicted on the basis of two leaflets they printed and threw from windows of a building in New York City. One leaflet, signed "revolutionists", denounced the sending of American troops to Russia. The second leaflet, written in Yiddish, denounced the war and US efforts to impede the Russian Revolution. It advocated the cessation of the production of weapons to be used against Soviet Russia.
Mr. Justice Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court in his dissenting judgment in that case wrote : "Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to me perfectly logical. If you have no doubt of your premises or your power and want a certain result with all your heart you naturally express your wish to sweep away all opposition. But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas, that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market; and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. I wholly disagree with the argument of the government that the 1st Amendment left the common law as to seditious libel in force. History seems to me against the notion."
In Gitlow vs. New York, 268 U.S. 652, the appellant, a member of the left wing of the Socialist Party, had been convicted for printing and distributing copies of the Left Wing Manifesto which called for " overthrow of the state by class action of the proletariat in any form, seizure of power and suppression of the bourgeoisie ". In his dissenting judgment in that case Justice Holmes said :
" It is manifest that there was no present danger of an attempt to overthrow the government by force on the part of the admittedly small minority who shared Gitlow's views. It is said that the manifesto is more than a theory, that it was an incitement. Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed is acted on, unless some other belief outweighs it.--Whatever may be thought of the discourse before us, it had no chance of starting a present conflagration.
If in the long run the beliefs expressed in proletarian dictatorship are destined to be accepted by the dominant forces of the community, the only meaning of free speech is that they should be given their chance and have their way ".
In Whitney vs. California, 274 U.S. 357 ( 1927 ) Mr. Justice Brandeis, the celebrated Judge of the U.S. Supreme Court observed :
"Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of free speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears ".
In Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee vs. McGrath, 341 US 123, 174 (1951) Mr. Justice Douglas in his concurring judgment observed :
"In days of great tension when feelings run high, it is a temptation to take short cuts by borrowing from the totalitarian techniques of our opponents. But when we do, we set in motion a subversive influence of our own design that destroys us from within."
All the above decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court have been referred to with approval in the decision of the Indian Supreme Court in Sri Indra Das vs. State of Assam ( 2011).
In Romesh Thapar v. State of Madras, Patanjali Shastri, CJ observed: “ Freedom of speech lies at the foundation of democracy, for without free political discussion no public education, so essential for the proper functioning of the process of popular government, is possible.” ( see AIR 1950 S.C. 124 )
In Union of India v. Assn. for Democratic Reforms: (2002 5 S.C.C.294 the Supreme Court observed “Onesided information, disinformation, misinformation and non-information, all equally create an uninformed citizenry which makes democracy a farce. Freedom of speech and expression includes right to impart and receive information which includes freedom to hold opinions”.
In 1954, Ram Manohar Lohia, then General Secretary of the Praja Socialist Party was arrested by the U.P. government for leading protests around the governments policy that had increased irrigation rates for water supplied for canals to cultivators. He was prosecuted under the U.P. Special Powers Act 1942, which criminalized instigating people to refuse to pay taxes. Supreme Court ruled in favour of Lohia, holding that the state government’s action was in violation of Article 19(1)(a), vide Supdt. Central Prison vs. Ram Manohar Lohia, AIR 1960 S.C.633. The Court held that for an action to be restricted under Article 19(2), there needs to be a proximate and reasonable connection or nexus between the speech in question and public order.
The Court said: " In an attempt to indicate its wide sweep, we pointed out that any instigation by word or visible representation not to pay or defer payment of any exaction or even contractual dues to Government, authority or a land owner is made an offence. Even innocuous speeches are prohibited by threat of punishment. There is no proximate or even foreseeable connection between such instigation and the public order sought to be protected under section (sic). We cannot accept the argument of the learned Advocate General that instigation of a single individual not to pay tax or dues is a spark, which may in the long run ignite a revolutionary movement destroying public order. We can only say that fundamental rights cannot be controlled on such hypothetical and imaginary considerations. It is said that in a democratic set up there is no scope for agitational approach and that if a law is bad the only course is to get it modified by democratic process and that any instigation to break the law is in itself a disturbance of the public order. If this argument without obvious limitations were accepted, it would destroy the right to freedom of speech, which is the very foundation of democratic way of life. Unless there is a proximate connection between the instigation and the public order, the restriction, in our view, is neither reasonable nor is it in the interest of public order. In this view, we must strike down s. 3 of the Act as infringing the fundamental right guaranteed under Art. 19(1)(a) of the Constitution.
The Court here firmly recognizes the right to agitate and protest, while at the same time safeguarding the right to freedom of speech and expression by laying down the bar for when speech can be limited in the interests of public order. "
In Kedar Nath Singh vs. State of Bihar A.I.R. 1962 955, a Constitution Bench of the India Supreme Court observed that section.124A IPC was made in 1870 during British rule, but after the Constitution of India came into force in 1950 it must be given a narrow, and not literal interpretation, otherwise it will become unconstitutional.
For progress there must be freedom to think, freedom to discuss, freedom to express one's opinions ( even though distasteful to the majority ) freedom to criticize and freedom to dissent. An idea may be disagreeable to the majority, yet it should be permitted to be expressed.
As pointed out by John Stuart Mill in his celebrated essay ‘On Liberty’ : " All progress, advancement of knowledge and progressive change and improvement of old ways of thinking, and the consequent old behaviour-patterns, habits, customs and traditions can come about only from free individual dissents and dissentions, innovations, etc. which are at first usually resisted by inert or conservative people (who are usually the vast majority), and by a free competition between the old and new ideas. In any society ordinarily the majority shares old thoughts and traditions, and there is a strong tendency to insist on conformity and collective unity or solidarity, to repress dissents and innovations, and to tolerate only what the majority agree with. This inevitably works to prevent any progress and to thwart the creative impulses of the more creative and original minds. Extensive freedom to dissent and innovate, in all spheres of life, activity, culture and thought in all directions, including expressing ideas initially thought strange and often disliked by the conservative tradition-bound majority are indispensable for progress.
The intellectually advanced and creative individuals are often in the minority, and are regarded as non-conforming eccentrics and deviants, and there is often a tendency to suppress them. This is why liberal democracy, i.e. majority rule but qualified and limited by firm protection of minorities, and individual rights and liberties, even as against the governing majority, is essential for progress. The majority often consists of mediocre persons who wish to continue in the old ways of thinking and practices. Hence the liberties and rights have to be guaranteed to the often powerless tiny minorities and lone individuals so that progress can take place."
In view of the above, I submit that mere demands and slogans for azadi, etc will not be crimes unless one goes further and (1) commits violence, or ( 2 ) organizes violence, or (3) incites to imminent violence.
The JNU students and Amnesty neither commited nor organized violence, nor called for immediate resort to arms Hence in my opinion they committed no crime, and the charges against them should be dropped.
2. That having been said, I totally disapprove of the demand for azadi for Kashmir or any part of India for the following reasons :
(a) The test of every system is one, and only one : does it raise the standard of living of the people ? Azadi can only be a means to an end, not an end in itself. The end must be raising the standard of living of Kashmiris. I have repeatedly said that if it can be demonstrated that azadi results in raising the standard of living of the Kashmiri people, i.e. creating large scale employment for the Kashmiri youth, providing for healthcare for Kashmiris, abolishing poverty, providing nutritious food, etc I will support the demand.
But it is certain that the azadi being demanded by many Kashmiris will lower the standard of living of Kashmiris, far from raising it.
Azadi for Kashmir will result in Islamic revivalism, imposition of Sharia law in Kashmir, etc which will be disastrous for Kashmiris as it will drive Kashmir into the dark middle ages. The mentor of the separatist leader and Chairman of the Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani was Abdul Ala Maududi, who propagated Islamic revivalism, and strongly opposed secularism and womens' emancipation.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abul_A%27la_Maududi…
Geelani's ideology, and that of other separatists, appears to be the same, otherwise why do they not disclose what is their plan for raising the standard of living of Kashmiris assuming azadi is achieved ? They are totally and deliberately silent about that.
Burhan Wani was turned into a hero by many Kashmiris. But to my mind he was only a pawn being used by certain vested interests ( see my blog http://justicekatju.blogspot.in/…/the-kashmiri-separatist-m… ). What was Burhan Wani's ideology ? Was it Islamic fundamentalism ? What were his plans for raising the standard of living of Kashmiris once azadi was achieved ? Did he even think about this ? Umar Khalid of JNU compared Burhan Wani with Che Guevara. But Che had an ideology ( whether one agrees with or not ). How can the two be compared ?
(b) Kashmir is too small and economically backward to survive as an independent state. So azadi, even if it is achieved, will soon thereafter result in Kashmir coming under the Pakistani military jackboot and imposition of the feudal, outdated Sharia law and Wahabiism. We have all seen what is going on in Pakistan, of which Kashmir will then become a part ?
It is true that there is communalism in India too, but it is nothing compared to what is happening in Pakistan. Ahmediyas, Shias, Hindus, Christians, etc are regularly killed there by the religious bigots. Recently a Hindu doctor of Karachi was killed. What was his fault ? That he was a Hindu. Blasphemy laws are applied to victimize innocent minorities. Recently about 70 people were killed and over 100 injured in a bomb blast in a hospital in Quetta, many of them lawyers and journalists.http://www.reuters.com/arti…/us-pakistan-blast-idUSKCN10J0I7
Journalists who write independently are regularly killed. People are afraid of speaking out openly in Pakistan, which has become a Jurassic Park. Do Kashmiris want to be a part of that ?
(c). Many Kashmiris claim that Kashmir was never part of India. This is untrue, and the truth has been explained in detail in my blog http://justicekatju.blogspot.in/…/the-false-claim-of-kashmi…
(d). Kashmir has a large handicraft industry, and a huge market for it is in India. In almost every town in India there are shops of Kashmiris selling carpets, shawls, and other handicraft items. When I went to Kovallam beach in Trivandrum, Kerala I found 3 Kashmiri shops there. All this huge market will be destroyed if Kashmir separates from India ( because then Kashmiris will not be able to come into India without a visa, and such visas will be very difficult to get ), and the workers and owners of these handicraft industries will become unemployed. Have Kashmiris and the JNU students ever thought of that ?
(e) The Kashmiris working in India and Kashmiri students will have to get out of India.
(f). Some people talk of U.N. Resolutions. But these were passed a long time back soon after independence in 1947 when our leaders were inexperienced and under tremendous pressure of powerful nations who had their own axes to grind. It is well known that the U.N. is dominated by powerful nations which have their own vested interests. Why should we bother about what happened so long back, and under pressure ?
The worst thing in life is poverty. India must remain united ( in fact I have repeatedly said that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must reunite as the two nation theory for Partition was bogus ) because the only way to abolish poverty, unemployment and our other socio-economic ills is rapid industrialization, for only a huge industry will we able to generate the wealth for the welfare of our people. But for such a huge industry we must have a huge market, because the goods produced have to be sold. Therefore far from dividing India we must remain united if we are to escape from poverty and other social ills. The demand for azadi is totally reactionary.

Thursday, 18 August 2016

Your condemning atrocities on Kashmiri Pandits now is useless. Chidiyan chug gayin khet. Why did u & ur ilk not speak out in 1989 to 1999 when Kashmiri Pandits were regularly and selectively being killed in the valley, and hounded out from there ? Kya tab tumhare zubaan par taala laga hua tha ? It is only now that u r shedding crocodile tears, when the deed is already done.

Kashmiri Muslims, and their supporters like Arundhati Roy, Umar Khalid & other students of JNU, etc cry hoarse over atrocities on Kashmiri Muslims and Palestinians, but why did they not raise their voices when atrocities were committed on Kashmiri Pandits ? Are KPs insects & worms, and not humans ? Is secularism a one way traffic ? Should atrocities on Muslims alone be condemned, but not atrocities against Hindus in Kashmir, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc ? Sorry Arundhati Roy and Umar Khalid, this wont do. Secularism has to be a two way traffic

But the most treasured one was from a lady, Naseem Zohra, who regards me as her brother.

When I was a lawyer in Allahabad High Court among my close friends was Afsar Ali, advocate in the High Court. He was elder to me by a few years. He had married Naseem Zohra, and had 4 small children ( 3 daughters and a son ).

Every year on Eid he would invite a group of 4 or 5 friends to his house in Daryabad for dinner. He was a conservative Muslim, and we never saw his wife as long as he was alive, as she was in purdah. But she used to prepare delicious non vegetarian dishes for us.

I became a Judge of the High Court in 1991, and in 1992 Afsar Ali died. Naseem Zohra sent me a message that she wanted to meet me, and I requested her to come to my residence. There she told me that her brothers in Rampur had asked her to come there with her children, and live there.

I told her that she should not shift to Rampur, as after some time she would not be welcome there. I said that she had her home in Allahabad, and she should remain here, and I would get her a job in the Allahabad High Court, so that she may be able to have an income to feed her children. However, I told her that she must give up her purdah now, as she would have to fight it out in the outside world, from which she had been till then largely isolated.

Accordingly i got her appointed on a class 3 ( clerical ) post, and I told the Registrar General to post her in the High Court library, where the work was lighter, and she could go home early. This enabled her to support her family, which she did.

I also advised her to get more qualified, since in 1992 she was only Inter passed. Accordingly she did her B.A. Ll. B, and B..Lib ( Bachelor in Library Science )

All this happened over 24 years ago, but every year since then on rakshabandhan day she has been regularly sending me rakhi, and also coming personally to tie it on my hands whenever she could. The written message to me every year ( with the rakhi ) says '' Aapne bhai ka farz nibhaya ''. Today she told me that if I had not helped her in 1992 she would have been washing utensils in some household

Now all her 4 children are grown up and well settled. She has several grandchildren.

She was promoted as a bench secretary in the High Court, earning over Rs. 50, 000 p.m.

Today, 18.8.2016, she came all the way from Allahabad, as she does every year, to tie rakhi personally on my hand. .

She told me that she has now retired as a bench secretary in the High Court, and gets Rs. 24, 000 p.m. as pension, apart from her providend fund.

Justice Lodha is the newly discovered Indian Superman, our own Boy Wonder, our panacea, our elixir for all ills plaguing Indian society.

After appointing him head a of a panel to clean up the BCCI, the Supreme Court has appointed him head of a panel to clean up the Medical Council of India.
It is reported that In its order appointing the Lodha Committe to oversee the functioning of the Medical Council the Supreme Court said :

“All policy decisions of the MCI will require approval of the oversight committee. The committee will be free to issue appropriate remedial directions (to the MCI).”

The Medical Council of India has been constituted as a statutory body by an Act of Parliament. There is no provision in the Medical Council of India Act stating that policy decisions of the MCI will require approval from a committee appointed by the Supreme Court, or that the committee can issue directions to the MCI.

Thus by a judicial order the MCI Act has been amended. Is this a legitimate excercise of judicial power ? Does the Supreme Court think it can do whatever it likes, and has no limitations ?

I had thought that an Act of the legislature can only be altered or amended by the legislature itself, and not by any other body, but evidently some Judges think otherwise.

It has been held by numerous judgments of the Supreme Court itself, many of them 5 judge or 3 judge bench decisions ( I have quoted about 40 such judgments in my report to the BCCI which can be seen on the website bcci.tv ) that judges cannot legislate. These binding precedents are often ignored by some Supreme Judges who lacking all self restraint think that just because they are Supreme Court judges and there is no one above them to correct their errors they can behave like Emperors and issue any fatwa or firman even if it violates the Constitution or a statute or a binding precedent.

A typical example was the second and third judges cases, by which the Supreme Court substituted an entirely different Article 124 (1) for the existing one in the Constitution, creating a Collegium system of appointment of judges unknown to the Constitution, something so bizarre that it was described as ' a sleight of hand ' by Lord Cooke.

There is broad separation of powers under our Constitution between the 3 organs of the state---the legislature, judiciary and executive. Making laws is the domain of the legislature, not the judiciary. Judges can only apply the law to the facts of a particular case and can interpret the law, but they cannot make law.

However, this principle of separation of powers is often forgotten by some Supreme Court judges who very often legislate. And a typical example is the order passed in the case relating to the MCI.

There can be no objection to the Court's order appointing a committee to lo0k into any complaint against a body like the MCI. But after receiving the report of the committee the Court can only forward the report to Parliament, adding its own suggestions if it so wished, and recommending appropriate amendments to the MCI Act ( or other statute ), but it is for Parliament, in its discretion, to accept the recommendations or not, or partially accept them.

But since some Supreme Court judges think otherwise, and are bent on ignoring binding precedents, and flouting the Constitutional scheme and the law, and think that the judiciary can solve all India's massive problems by judicial orders, may I humbly suggest to these great judges to go further and appoint committees, all to be headed by our newly discovered magician and

Superman, Justice Lodha, to do the following acts
1. Abolish poverty in the country
2. Abolish unemployment
3. Abolish malnutrition
4. Provide universal health care in the country
5. Abolish farmers suicides
6. Abolish discrimination against minorities, women, dalits, etc
7. Fix an age cap and tenure ( as was done for office bearers of BCCI ) for Ministers, MPs, MLAs, mediapersons, film stars, etc
8. Stop joking by people altogether ( as is being contemplated by the Supreme Court for Sardarji jokes )
9. Provide speedy justice
10. Abolish corruption in the country ( particularly in the judiciary, where it is rampant ).
11. Abolish price rise
12. And in general make India a land of milk and honey.
I understand that Justice Lodha has set about in right earnest to remedy the functioning of the MCI ( as he has been doing in the case of BCCI ).

I am reminded of Mirza Ghalib's sher :
" Rau mein hai raksh-e-umr jaane kahaan thamey
Na baagh hai haath mein, na pa raqaab mein"
i.e.
" The horse of the age is on the gallop, one wonders where it will stop
Neither has the rider the reins in his hands, nor his legs are in the stirrup "

A retired Lt. General of the Indian Army sent me this piece by email :

The General Officer Commanding, Delhi Area, who is of the rank of a Major General, used to escort the Prime Minister to the dias every Independence Day at Red Fort.

This year Babus ( i.e. civil administrative officers ) did it, and the GOC walked behind in the third row.

The GOC used to be the only dignitary standing behind the Prime Minister. This year it was a Babu who was there, and the GOC was pushed to the side. I wonder why the GOC stood there if he was to be treated with such disdain and distrespect?

I was told that the GOC Gen Mitra had conveyed that he will not allow the protocol to be breached and he will stand next to the PM and not next to a Babu. But sadly the Army allowed itself to be relegated.

It is time the Army moved out from all these ceremonial commitments and let the civil administration handle it. Why should we let ourselves be treated as working hands, expendables, unhonoured and unsung???

Unfortunately the army, whose officers and soldiers give their lives gallantly defending the country is conveniently forgotten on such solemn occasions.
The closing remarks of the PM in his Independence Day speech.were
"Jal, thal, nabh mein hamari raksha karte hue police karmiyon ko main salaam karta hoon".

So now the Defense Services will no longer be governed by MIML and DSR.
The Defense Services will now be governed by the Police Manual.

Retirement age of Lt. Generals is 60 years, that of lower ranks is less. .
Honesty, and devotion to duty of armed forces is the same, if not more, than the police, but we are often forgotten..
Our dedication to the country and society is the same as of Ministers, MPs and MLAs.

Congratulations to all!

As per PM's speech, the Armed forces have now been converted into police.
This is definitely not a slip of the tongue.
Also, the PM closed his speech mentioning " 33000 police karmi ne balidan diya hai ". No mention of the armed forces.

The Doval imprint was clearly in this. the police is supreme. while the Military sacrifices are in vain.

Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Why cant we rig the Olympics to win medals ? We are experts in rigging elections, recruitments, exams, etc.So why not Olympics too ?
I had read Mario Puzo's novel 'The Godfather ' a long time back, and that has given me an idea.
We should first send our 'Consiegliere', someone like Tom Hagen, ( and there are lots of them among our politicians and bureaucrats ) ) to the relevant Olympic officials to make them 'an offer they cannot refuse'.
If this does not work out, we should then send them a note stating that if our sportspersons are not awarded gold medals, we will do to the officials something akin to what Don Vito Corleone did to persuade the Hollywood film producer Jack Woltz to award the leading film role to his godson Johnny Fontane.
When Tom Hagen's 'reasonable' persuasion did not work, the head of Woltz's favourite horse Khartoum was cut off and placed in his bed at night, so that when he woke up in the morning he got such a shock and was so terrified that he quickly gave the film role to Fontane.
So we should send a note to the Olympic officials mentioning this story, and stating that if gold medals are not awarded to our sportspersons, the head of the officials' wives or girl friends will be lying on their beds the next morning. That will surely do the job
What do you think of this idea ? Isnt it brilliant ?

Tuesday, 16 August 2016

The Prime Minister's reference to Balochistan and POK in his Independence Day Speech at Red Fort in Delhi has come not a moment too soon. In fact it should have come in some speech much earlier, and also by earlier Prime Ministers, and it should also have referred to the demand for independence by people of Sind and NWFP. The speech reminds me of Nehru's speech ' A Tryst with Destiny '. Now we are going to have another tryst with our destiny.

How long must we tolerate the Pakistani leaders castigating and condemning us over Kashmir ? How long must we tolerate their incitement, encouragement and support of the Kashmiri agitations and militancy ? How long must we remain at the receiving end ? It is time now to pay them back in the same coin. Just as Pakistan is giving training, weapons and supplies to militants in Kashmir, we too must start organizing, training and supplying weapons etc to Sindhis, Balochis, and the NWFP people who have been suppressed by Punjabis in the Pakistan security services for long, and want independence. Pakistanis must be told frankly : since you wanted azadi for Kashmir, let us also have azadi for the people of Sind, Balochistan and NWFP.

I have repeatedly said that Pakistan is a fake, artificial entity ( I refuse to call it a country ), and that the Partition of 1947 was sham, fraudulent, and a historical swindle on us, on the basis of the bogus two nation theory, behind which was the wicked British divide and rule policy ( see my article ' The Truth about Pakistan ' online and on my blog Satyam Bruyat. It was published in the Pakistan newspaper 'The Nation ' ). I have also said that India and Pakistan ( and Bangladesh ) will one day definitely reunite., as we are really one nation, artificially divided, like Germany in 1945 ( see my blogs in this connection e.g. ' India and Pakistan: the case for reunification ' , ' India and Pakistan ', etc).

Many people then called me a maverick and a dreamer. I replied that Mazzini who spoke of Italian Unification, was also called a dreamer by many at one time, but later his dream became a reality due to Garibaldi and Cavour. The dream of German unification was realized twice, once under Bismarck in 1871, and then again in 1990.

In fact Prime Minister Modi's speech at the Red Fort is the first step in reuniting India and Pakistan ( and Bangladesh ).

What is Pakistan ? It is Punjab, Sind, Balochistan and NWFP. These were all part of India since Mughal times.

And in Pakistan, Punjabis dominate, while people of the other 3 provinces are suppressed by Punjabis and denied the independence they want.

When I meet a Pakistani, I feel no different from him. We look like each other, speak the same language Hindustani, ( called Hindi in India and Urdu in Pakistan ), have the same culture, the same love for Urdu poetry and Hindustani music, biryani and other dishes, etc. In foreign countries Indians and Pakistanis mix and socialize as if Partition had never taken place. This was my own experience during my visits to North America and Europe.

We were befooled by the Britishers into thinking we are enemies and different nations, but how much longer must we remain befooled.? How much longer must blood flow between us ? How much longer must we spend a huge amount of money buying foreign arms, money which could have been spent on the welfare of our poor people ? We must reunite under a secular government which while guaranteeing freedom of religion to all, does not tolerate religious extremism or bigotry of any kind, whether Hindu or Muslim, and crushes it with an iron hand.

The first step towards reunification has been taken by Prime Minister Modi's speech by his references to Balochistan and POK.The next step in this direction will be to dismember Pakistan ( which, as I said, is no country at all in the first place ). In fact dismemberment of Pakistan had begun in 1971 when Bangladesh was created. Now the next step must be to help Sind, Baluchistan, and NWFP, which today lie under the Punjabi military jackboot, to become independent ( later, they will voluntarily unite with us ). There are already organizations in these provinces which want independence, and we must start sending them arms and other supplies on a large scale. This would not be difficult since we have a long border with Sindh.

Those who talk of 'improving' relations between India and Pakistan are living in a fool's paradise. There can never be good relations between us, because Pakistan was created by the British as a theocratic state so that tension, enmity and hostility remain, and the Indian sub continent remains weak and backward. This serves two objectives ( 1 ) India ( of which Pakistan is really a part ) does not emerge as a modern industrial giant ( of which it now has all the potential ), and thereby does not become a big rival to Western industry (2 ) India and Pakistan remain a huge market for the Western arms industries ( India is the biggest foreign arms purchaser in the world ).

So it will not be easy for us to reunite, as those who divided us will not let us easily reunite. But we are bound to reunite one day by the effort of our patriotic modern minded people, as the Partition of 1947 was on the basis of the bogus two nation theory. We are really one nation, but the British wickedly brainwashed many of us into believing that Hindus and Muslims are enemies and two separate nations, so that we keep fighting each other and remain weak. Until we reunite we will remain poor and backward, and the worst thing in life is poverty

When we reunite we will have a huge market for growth of a highly developed modern industry, which alone can generate the wealth we require for converting India into a highly prosperous, highly industrialized country with its people enjoying a high standard of living and decent lives. There will be freedom of religion in this reunited India, but no freedom of religious bigotry or extremism.

Yesterday evening I received a telephone call from a Pakistani youth who lives in Lahore .

. He asked whether in reunited India he will have a chance of becoming the Prime Minister of the country ? I replied certainly. There will be no discrimination in such a reunited India, and a person of any religion, race, language, region or gender can become the Prime Minister and lead the nation

Monday, 15 August 2016

When Pakistan repeatedly incites, encourages and supports agitations and militancy in Kashmir, why should our government not pay Pakistan back in the same coin by doing the same in Sind, Baluchistan and NWFP ?

I agree with fhe P.M. in this respect, and in fact would go much further

Nehle pe dehla

Eent ka jawab patthar se

Azadi for Sind, Baluchistan and NWFP should be our demand.

Let Kanhaiya, Umar Khalid & other heroes of JNU and Jadavpur University also demand this openly if they have the guts.

And let Kashmiris demanding azadi for Kashmir also start demanding azadi for Sind, Baluchistan and NWFP

Today is India's Independence Day, and I send my greetings to all on this occasion.

But on 15.8.1947 India achieved only political independence, not economic independence. About 80% of our people are still poor, lacking basic necessities of a decent life. This is no independence for them.

Real independence will come when the Indian masses are prosperous, enjoying a high standard of living, when poverty, unemployment, lack of healthcare, good education, etc and social evils like the caste system, discrimination against women, minorities, dalits, etc are abolished, when true secularism is established, and when India gets its rightful place in the comity of nations.

That will be the day of our real Independence. I will almost certainly not be alive to see that day ( as I am already an old man of 70 ), but many of you young people will. But let me warn you. To achieve it will require about 20 or more years of tremendous struggle by the masses led by the patriotic, modern minded section of India, a struggle in which colossal sacrifices will have to be made.

But when that day comes I will be watching it with great happiness from the other world, weeping for those who will have fallen in this struggle ( and their numbers will be staggering), and marvelling at the stupendous achievement of the Indian masses led by their patriotic, modern minded leaders.

Friday, 12 August 2016

A Muslim body, the Majlis Tahaffuze Khatme Nabuwat ( MTKM ), has demanded from the Central Government that the Ahmediyas be declared as non Muslims, and Owaisi, true to his nature, has jumped into the fray.

Now it is true that most Muslims believe that Muhammed was the last prophet, whereas the Ahmediyas, who are a small sect in India and Pakistan, believe that there was also a prophet in the 19th century called Mirza Ghulam Ahmed.

If Ahmediyas believe that there was a prophet after Muhammed, are they cutting off anyone's head, are they chopping off anyone's limbs ?

Shias believe that the first three Caliphs ( Khalifas ), i.e. Abu Bakr, Umar and Usman, who are recognized by Sunnis, were usurpers. So should Shias also be declared as non Muslims ?

All this shows the medeival bigotry and idiocy of certain people. Our Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, and any religion or sect is allowed freedom for its beliefs. This is not Pakistan where the Constitution was amended and Ahmediyas declared as non Muslims, and treated horribly.

India has to modernize if our people are to have decent lives with a high standard of living, and for this rationalism and scientific thinking has to be promoted. Religious bigots, whether Hindu or Muslim, who wish to keep our country in the dark, medeival age, should be ruthlessly suppressed, treating them as enemies of the nation